Backcourt

Quick meaning: Backcourt is a noun meaning (handball) The area farthest from the opponent's goal around the nine-metre line, where a team's defensive centre players are located.

Meaning

(handball) The area farthest from the opponent's goal around the nine-metre line, where a team's defensive centre players are located.

More Meanings

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

Example Sentences

'The locus is Crawford Street?' 'One of the backcourts sir, as far as I understand.'

Some backcourts had wee outside buildings. They had caved-in roofs and tile chimneys broke off and all smashed windows.

So the Knicks, who began the season with a depleted frontcourt, have muddled through the last six weeks with a depleted backcourt as well.

Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.

Word Forms

• backcourts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include basecourt, court, close, quadrangle, garden, parvis.

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